Dickens characters traced by historian
Two hundred years since his birth, Charles Dickens remains an iconic figure, and his novels with their larger than life characters continue to enjoy huge popularity.
And now there is new evidence that Dickens lived much closer to some of the characters in his novels than previously thought.
Will Gompertz reports.
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